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To be a good teacher, you need some of the gifts of a good actor; you must be able to hold the attention and interest of your audience; you must be a clear speaker, with a good, strong, pleasant voice which is fully under your control; and you must be able to act what you are teaching, in order to make its meaning clear.

Watch a good teacher, and you will see that he doesn’t sit still before his class; he stands the whole time he is teaching; he walks about, using his arms, hands and fingers to help him in his explanations, and his face to express feelings.

There are very important differences between the teacher’s work and the actor’s.

The actor has to speak words which he has learnt by heart; he has to repeat exactly the same words each time he plays a certain part, even his movements and the ways in which he uses his voice are usually fixed beforehand(预先).What he has to do is to make all these carefully learnt words and actions seem natural on the stage. A good teacher works in quite a different way. His audience take an active part in his play: they ask and answer questions, they obey orders, and if they don’t understand anything, they say so. The teacher can’t learn his part by heart, but must invent it as he goes along.

I have known many teachers who are fine actors in class but are unable to take part in a stage-play because they can’t keep strictly to what another has written.

(   ) 1. What does the underlined word “gifts” mean?

     A. presents      B. knowledge      C. skills           D. advantages

(   ) 2. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

     A. A good teacher should speak clearly.

     B. A good teacher should sit still before his class and speak with his body language.

     C. A good actor should speak as others have asked him to do.

     D. A good actor should repeat exactly the same words each time he plays a certain part.

(   ) 3. The skills of a good teacher are       ____ .

A. draw his students’ attention             B. change his voice when needed

C. act out what he is teaching              D. all the above

(   ) 4. From the passage, we know_______________.

     A. a good teacher should be a good actor    

B. a good teacher may be unable to act well on the stage

C. a good actor should be a good teacher      D. a good actor may act well in class

(   ) 5. The title (标题)of the passage is _____________.

     A. How to be a good teacher              B. How to be a good actor

     C. A good teacher’s knowledge            D. A good actor’s behavior

完形填空,阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后在各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳选项。

It was the first day of school. I had a new classmate, a little old lady with a warm smile.

She said, “Hi, young man! I'm Rose. I'm 87 years old. Can I give you a hug? ”

I said   1   , “Of course!”

“Why are you in college at   2   an age?” I asked.

She joked, “I'm here to meet a    3   husband, get married, have children, and then travel around the world.”

“No, seriously(严肃地),” I asked.

“I always   4  of having a college education. Now I'm getting one!” she told me.

After a year, Rose became popular. She easily made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she enjoyed the attention from   5   .

At the end of the semester we invited Rose to    6   at our party. I'll never forget what she taught   7  .

“We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow   8    because we stop playing. Here are the     9   of staying young. You have to laugh and find humor every   10   . You've got to have a dream. When you    11 your dreams, you die!” she said.

“There is a big   12  between growing old and growing up. Anybody can grow old. That doesn't take any talent or ability,” she added. “But to   13   , you have to find the chance in change. Have no regrets(遗憾). We usually don't have regrets for what we did ,   14   rather for things we did not do.”

Finally we graduated from the college with Rose. One week   15  graduation ( 毕业 ), she died peacefully（平静地） in her sleep. She taught us by example that it's never too late to be all you can possibly be.

(    )1. A. slowly               B. happily                         C. heavily        D. badly

(    )2. A. so                     B. this                              C. such                 D. that

(    )3. A. rich                   B. bad                              C. poor                 D. short

(    )4. A. hoped                B. wished                         C. wanted              D. dreamed

(    )5. A. another              B. the other                      C. the others      D. others

(    )6. A. say                    B. speak                           C. talk                  D. discuss

(    )7. A. us                     B. her                             C. him                  D. them

(    )8. A. young              B. old                           C. tall           D. thin

(    )9. A. stories               B. secrets                        C. seasons            D. surveys

(    )10. A. week               B. month                         C. year                 D. day

(    )11. A. lose                 B. have                            C. keep                 D. like

(    )12. A. chance             B. change                         C. difference      D. problem

(    )13. A. stand up           B. grow up                       C. grow old           D. keep healthy

(    )14. A. because          B. so                             C. though            D. but

(    )15. A. in                 B. after                          C. during        D. before 

---How are you getting on with your study?

         ---       , thank you.

      A. Not at all      B. Quite well      C. Never mind      D. Very nice

--How often does your father go fishing?

         ---            .

      A. Once a month       B. Two times      C. One month     D. Twice

 ---Is Jenny an outgoing girl?

         ---No, she is          than her sister. She is kind of shy.

       A. quiet         B. quieter       C. active     D. more active

It is said that potato chips       by mistake about a hundred years ago.

       A. invent         B. invented      C. are invented      D. were invented

His parents were worried that he        too much time chatting on line.

       A. spent        B. cost         C. paid         D. had

Sam enjoys        stamps. And now he has 226 of them.

        A. to collect      B. collected      C. collects      D. collecting

---Must I finish my homework now?

        ----No, you        . You         do it this evening.

       A. mustn’t; can     B. needn’t; may    C. can’t; must     D. needn’t; must to

 Beijing, the capital of China, is one of           cities in the world.

       A. the biggest      B. bigger       C. much bigger     D. big